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Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now
Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now
Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now
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New York Times bestselling author Eckhart Tolle — A key to happiness is living in the now

Practice The Power of Now: If you, like many others, have benefited from the transformative experience of reading The Power of Now, you will want to own and read Practicing the Power of Now.

Eckhart Tolle: Eckhart Tolle, a spiritual teacher and author who was born in Germany and educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge, is rapidly emerging as one of the world’s most inspiring spiritual teachers. His views go beyond any particular religion, doctrine, or guru. In The Power of Now and his subsequent book Practicing the Power of Now, Eckhart shares the enlightenment he himself experienced after a profound inner transformation radically changed the course of his life.

Your path to enlightenment: Practicing the Power of Now extracts the essence from Eckhart’s teachings in his New York Times bestseller, The Power of Now (translated into 33 languages). Practicing the Power of Now shows us how to free ourselves from “enslavement to the mind.” The aim is to be able to enter into and sustain an awakened state of consciousness throughout everyday life. Through meditations and simple techniques, Eckhart shows us how to quiet our thoughts, see the world in the present moment, and find a path to “a life of grace, ease, and lightness.”

The next step in human evolution: Eckhart’s profound yet simple teachings have already helped countless people throughout the world find inner peace and greater fulfillment in their lives. At the core of the teachings lies the transformation of consciousness, a spiritual awakening that he sees as the next step in human evolution. An essential aspect of this awakening involves transcending our ego-based state of consciousness. This is a prerequisite not only for personal happiness but also for the ending of violence on our planet.

Readers of other transformational self-help books such as The Four Agreements, The Miracle Morning, Braving the Wilderness, and The Book of Joy will want to read Practicing the Power of Now.

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Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now
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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual teacher and author Eckhart Tolle was born in Germany and educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. At the age of twenty-nine a profound inner transformation radically changed the course of his life. The next few years were devoted to understanding, integrating, and deepening that transformation, which marked the beginning of an intense inward journey. Later, he began to work in London with individuals and small groups as a counselor and spiritual teacher. Since 1995 he has lived in Vancouver, Canada. Eckhart Tolle is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Power of Now (translated into 33 languages) and A New Earth, which are widely regarded as two of the most influential spiritual books of our time. In 2008, A New Earth became the first spiritual book to be selected for Oprah's Book Club as well as the subject of a ten-week online workshop co-taught by Eckhart and Oprah.

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    To be concise...I am forever indebted to this Great man...Mr Tolle... your words and ideas are as powerful as Buddha's himself....I haven't met Buddha,but have read you. That completes my part of journey.
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    Must read for anyone looking to unlock their true potential in business and in life. Or if you're struggling with a difficult situation in your life. Would highly recommend.
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    Excelente resume of the power of now, which also love... Those books are changing my whole existence
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    A MUST READING BOOK, LIFE CHANGING AND SO SO HELPFUL ON UNDERSTANDING EVERY SITUATION IN YOUR LIFE AND THE KEY OF BEING PRESENT!
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    Deep information about how the kind works and it's operations
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    This book was a good read, at times it may be difficult to practice mindfulness but I have learned through daily practice being almost totally present and at peace is possible.
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    Reading this book has transformed my life from pain to living in gladness and joy. I'm learning daily who my true essence is and still becoming. Thank you for sharing these words. I will forever be grateful.
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    I thank the author whenever I read this book . This book has made my life beautiful. It changed me made me a better person in all ways . Thank you very much Mr eckhart tolle . Thank you
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    The past is in the past. Get over it.
    The future is an illusion.
    There's a way to make this now moment free from the past and future & if you make it so you will dissolve a lot of pain and suffering. Stop resisting the problems of the past and live fully in the present. Begin a new very moment.
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    I love this book! It provides a wealth of information concerning our ego, how damaging and controlling it is, and how best to neutralize it in order to live in the Now and embrace the great abundance of beauty on this earth. It takes you one step closer to accepting that God is love, we are God's creation, therefore we are love. Read it, practice it, live it, Be It. BEing.
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Practicing the Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle

NOW

PRACTICING

THE POWER OF

NOW

ESSENTIAL TEACHINGS,

MEDITATIONS, AND EXERCISES

FROM THE POWER OF NOW

Eckhart Tolle

NEW WORLD LIBRARY

NOVATO, CALIFORNIA

WWW.NEWWORLDLIBRARY.COM

New World Library

14 Pamaron Way

Novato, CA 94949

©1999 Eckhart Tolle

Most of the material in this book is excerpted from

The Power of Now © 1997 Eckhart Tolle

Cover design: Mary Ann Casler with Jacqueline Verkley

Text design: Mary Ann Casler

Typography: Tona Pearce Myers

Editing: Victoria Ritchie and Marc Allen

All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, or transmitted in any form, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review; nor may any part of this book be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or other, without written permission of the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tolle, Eckhart, 1948–

Practicing the power of now : essential teachings, meditations, and exercises from the power of now / Eckhart Tolle.

p. cm.

ISBN 1-57731-195-7 (hardcover. : alk. paper)

1. Spiritual life. I. Tolle, Eckhart, 1948– Power of now. II. Title.

BL624 .T645 2001

291.4'4--dc21                                                                2001003028

First printing, September 2001

Printed in Canada on acid-free, 100% post-consumer waste, recycled paper

ISBN 1-57731-195-7

Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West

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The beginning of freedom is the realization

that you are not the thinker.

The moment you start watching the thinker,

a higher level of consciousness becomes activated.

You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm

of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a

tiny aspect of that intelligence.

You also realize that all the things that truly matter —

beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace —

arise from beyond the mind.

You begin to awaken.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

by Eckhart Tolle

PART ONE

ACCESSING THE POWER OF NOW

CHAPTER ONE

Being and Enlightenment

CHAPTER TWO

The Origin of Fear

CHAPTER THREE

Entering the Now

CHAPTER FOUR

Dissolving Unconsciousness

CHAPTER FIVE

Beauty Arises in the Stillness of Your Presence

PART TWO

RELATIONSHIP AS SPIRITUAL PRACTICE

CHAPTER SIX

Dissolving the Pain-Body

CHAPTER SEVEN

From Addictive to Enlightened Relationships

PART THREE

ACCEPTANCE AND SURRENDER

CHAPTER EIGHT

Acceptance of the Now

CHAPTER NINE

Transforming Illness and Suffering

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

BY ECKHART TOLLE

Since it was first published in 1997, The Power of Now has already had an impact on the collective consciousness of the planet far beyond anything I could have imagined. It has been translated into fifteen languages, and I receive mail from around the globe every day from readers who tell me that their lives have been changed through coming into contact with the teaching embodied in the book.

Although the effects of the insanity of the egoic mind are still visible everywhere, something new is emerging. Never before have so many people been ready to break out of collective mind-patterns that have kept humanity in bondage to suffering since time immemorial. A new state of consciousness is emerging. We have suffered enough! Even at this moment it is emerging from within you, as you hold this book in your hands and read these lines that speak of the possibility of living the liberated life, in which you no longer inflict suffering on yourself or others.

Many of the readers who wrote to me expressed a wish to have the practical aspects of the teachings contained in The Power of Now presented in a more readily accessible format, to be used in their daily practice. That request became the impetus for this book.

In addition to the exercises and practices, however, this book also contains some shorter passages from the original work that can serve as a reminder of some of the ideas and concepts and can become a primer for incorporating those concepts daily.

Many of those passages are particularly suitable for meditative reading. When you practice meditative reading, you do not read primarily to gather new information, but to enter a different state of consciousness as you read. This is why you can re-read the same passage many times, and every time it feels fresh and new. Only words that were written or spoken in a state of presence have this transformative power, which is the power to awaken presence in the reader.

These passages are best read slowly. Many times you may want to pause and allow for a moment of quiet reflection, or stillness. At other times, you may just open the book at random and read a few lines.

For those readers who felt daunted or overwhelmed by The Power of Now, this book can also serve as an introduction.

— Eckhart Tolle

July 9, 2001

PART ONE

ACCESSING

THE POWER OF NOW

When your consciousness

is directed outward,

mind and world arise.

When it is directed inward,

it realizes its own Source

and returns home into the Unmanifested.

CHAPTER ONE

BEING AND ENLIGHTENMENT

There is an eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death. Many people use the word God to describe it; I often call it Being. The word Being explains nothing, but nor does God. Being, however, has the advantage that it is an open concept. It does not reduce the infinite invisible to a finite entity. It is impossible to form a mental image of it. Nobody can claim exclusive possession of Being. It is your very presence, and it is immediately accessible to you as the feeling of your own presence. So it is only a small step from the word Being to the experience of Being.

BEING IS NOT ONLY BEYOND BUT ALSO DEEP WITHIN every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don’t seek to grasp it with your mind. Don’t try to understand it.

You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

To regain awareness of Being and to abide in that state of feeling-realization is enlightenment.

The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form.

The inability to feel this connectedness gives rise to the illusion of separation, from yourself and from the world around you. You then perceive yourself, consciously or unconsciously, as an isolated fragment. Fear arises, and conflicts within and without become the norm.

The greatest obstacle to experiencing the reality of your connectedness is identification with your mind, which causes thought to become compulsive. Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don’t realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from

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